Age of Evolution

Within the ray of light, Heavenly Gate Guardian Zhuiyue appeared.

As the Longevity Realm Great God appeared, people retreated one after another, paying respect to the formidable power.

After Zhuiyue appeared, his gaze focused straight on Ke Jianglong.

“Do you know your sin!”

Ke Jianglong immediately felt sweat pouring from his body when Zhuiyue looked at him. His body shook involuntarily. Faced with unstoppable power, the World King was more afraid of death than ordinary people.

“I…I know my mistake.”

Zhuiyue snorted coldly: “Don’t blame me for being ruthless when you intervene with other Martial Artists in the Heavenly Gate. Don’t think that just because you used a trick to seal someone in an extradimensional space, I can’t deal with you. Since you can seal others, I can seal you just the same!”

With that, Zhuiyue raised his hand, and a spatial rift appeared directly beside Ke Jianglong.

“This is not an extradimensional space, but rather a dimensional rift. Energy storms rage within and cultivation is impossible. If you manage to survive for nine thousand years inside, you will be granted freedom.”

Ke Jianglong never dreamed that Zhuiyue would bring such severe punishment upon him. He was already regretful. The life of a World King was only ten thousand years, and he was already nearly three thousand years old. How could he possibly survive for another nine thousand years?

Moreover, there were endless energy storms, and this was a great suffering with no escape.

Unfortunately, facing the action of a Longevity Realm martial artist, he had no ability to resist. Ke Jianglong screamed as his body was spun and dragged into the spatial rift. The rift then closed.

Zhuiyue’s gaze turned to Elder Qin, “Fire Kirin Clan’s elder, do you know what a stupid thing you have done?”

“Great God…what are you talking about?”

“Hmph! In order to protect your own face, you instigated Ke Jianglong to attack Lin Zhen. Your actions destroyed a genius of your Fire Kirin Clan. Even if Ke Xiangnan didn’t reach the top, Lin Zhen’s success would still have been a merit for your Fire Kirin Clan. But you foolishly ruined it all. When you return to your clan, there will be no good outcome for you.”

“You mean to say, Lin Zhen is also a Fire Kirin? Ke Jianglong never told me that!”

“As an elder, being unable to discern the whole situation is your dereliction of duty. Regardless, there is no reason for you and me to speak more. With your current mindset, you cannot advance to the Longevity realm. You have no hope left.”

With that, Zhuiyue stopped attending to Elder Qin and turned his gaze to where Lin Zhen had disappeared.

After watching for a while, a thoughtful look appeared in Zhuiyue’s eyes, as if something was puzzling him.

He then turned around and disappeared.

Zhuiyue’s brief appearance left everyone staring in astonishment.

The play of events happened too quickly, the twists and turns too great, and the reversals were numerous.

People from the Original World came to receive Ke Xiangnan, then Lin Zhen appeared and turned the tables, Ke Jianglong interfered and sealed Lin Zhen, and finally, Zhuiyue appeared and sealed Ke Jianglong.

These events were so dizzying.

After Zhuiyue left, Elder Qin squatted down in regret. His intestines turned green with remorse.

He hadn’t expected Lin Zhen to also be a Fire Kirin. What kind of stupid thing had he done?

If he had left it alone, his Fire Kirin Clan might have taken both first and second place in this competition, but instead, he had destroyed it all.

His gaze towards Ke Xiangnan was no longer as friendly as before.

Without any intention of dealing with Ke Xiangnan any further, Elder Qin turned around and walked back through the insect hole, returning directly to the Original World.

He estimated that the news must have already been sent back to the Original World, and now he needed to think about how to face the condemnation from his clan.

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The outsiders had all left, leaving only the martial artists in the Heavenly Gate area.

After watching the play unfold, the spectators gradually dispersed, as they still had to cultivate and try to break through the Heavenly Gate.

Although Lin Zhen was sealed this time, people had already acknowledged who was the best.

As for whether Ke Xiangnan could succeed in his second attempt, it didn’t seem to matter much anymore.

Ke Xiangnan was now caught in a dilemma. Whether to attempt to break through the Heavenly Gate again now was a question. Continuing the breakthrough would make him a laughingstock if he succeeded.

If he didn’t try, would he stay in the New World forever?

A dilemma!

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Endless darkness surrounded Lin Zhen, causing his eyelids to grow heavy involuntarily.

In this boundless darkness, he only felt his breathing slow and his breath warm, making him unconsciously want to sleep.

Lin Zhen knew he absolutely couldn’t sleep.

Once he fell asleep, he might never have the chance to wake up again.

He had to escape from here, or else he would be trapped here forever.

Suppressing his overwhelming drowsiness, Lin Zhen thrust his spear forward!

With this shot, he gathered all his Star Power while using the power of Space Law, resulting in a collapse!

As long as he could tear a tiny rift in space, Lin Zhen would be able to teleport out.

But this strongest shot didn’t create any ripples in the air, there was no space-time fluctuation or the appearance of a space rift – it was like a needle piercing cotton, without any reaction.

As he shot out, Lin Zhen knew it was useless.

It was because his power wasn’t strong enough and also because the space here was too stable.

If he could cause even a little reaction, it would give Lin Zhen hope, but this lack of reaction was too despairing.

“No, I have to cultivate, I have to break through! I have to reach the Star System Stage! I must break this Spatial Cage and leave!”

Lin Zhen tried to cultivate but was horrified to find that he simply couldn’t circulate Star Power in this place.

“It turns out I can’t cultivate; so, I will expand my Dark Star Space. Although I feel it will take hundreds of years to light up the next Five Ghosts Star, I must not give up!”

But he soon discovered that not only could he not cultivate here, he couldn’t even expand his Dark Star Space.

The Dantian gas and Dark Star Space were both lifeless, like dead water.

A drowsy sleepiness attacked again, and Lin Zhen struggled to fight it off, determined not to fall asleep while searching for a way to leave this place.

“That’s right, I still have my clone. If my clone can return, then I can cooperate with it from inside and should have a chance to break through this strange space.”

Lin Zhen’s thoughts shifted to his clone.

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His clone had been flying in cosmic space for a hundred years already. When it left the Heavenly Gate, Lin Zhen had filled a spaceship with Energy Blocks so that it could keep going.

Behind the spaceship, the people arranged by Ke Xiangdong were still diligently pursuing Lin Zhen.

However, they couldn’t imagine that there was only Lin Zhen’s clone inside the spaceship, which had been mostly sleeping for more than a hundred years, except for occasionally setting the course.

Lin Zhen simultaneously controlled his main body and the clone with his Spiritual Power. But now, as his main body struggled with drowsiness, his clone also grew groggy.

“It’s still not possible. I must find time to shake these people off. Otherwise, my main body and clone won’t be able to reunite. But with several spaceships taking turns chasing me, I don’t have that opportunity.”

“If I want to shake them off, I have to return to the Chaotic Star River again. These people can’t pass through the Tunnel of Light. I have to go in from this side and then come out through the Dark Tunnel of the Demon Insect Empire to completely shake them off.”

“Although this path is incredibly long and may take several years or even more than a dozen years, there is still hope.”

After making this decision, Lin Zhen immediately had the spaceship accelerate, heading back towards the Chaotic Star River.

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Lin Zhen’s main body had no support as his clone couldn’t arrive. For the time being, his only option was to continue fighting against sleepiness and keep going.

Lin Zhen felt that this was probably the most difficult thing in the world.

The alternating black and white squares stretched endlessly in front of him. They passed by his side, making it seem like he was moving forward and yet standing still. He didn’t know where he was going or where he would end up.

There was no life, no other colors could be seen, and no sounds could be heard.

He couldn’t cultivate, improve, or make any movements, and his confused thoughts were barely holding on, supporting him to not be defeated by sleepiness.

When a person is sleepy and there’s nothing to disturb them, it’s rare for them to resist; they will fall asleep quickly.

Only by having an incredibly strong willpower and a firm soul can one fight against this sleepiness.

Lin Zhen didn’t know how long he would drift in this place, but he knew one thing for sure – he absolutely could not sleep.

If he slept, it would be forever.

He tried hard to recall everything he had experienced, his past lives, and his present one.

In his previous life, he had done poorly, muddling along for a thousand years, following the principle of not seeking merit but avoiding mistakes, and eventually died of depleted lifespan.

In this life, he was no longer afraid of anyone or anything. He seized opportunities and made it here with his unyielding willpower and strong soul as his greatest strengths, rather than the advantage of rebirth.

Facing seemingly unstoppable forces, Lin Zhen always managed to survive in desperate situations, and he believed that this time would be no different.

“It’s just a matter of not sleeping. That’s nothing for a Spiritual Mind Master, as long as my will isn’t defeated by sleepiness, I can keep going!”

Lin Zhen’s hope was for his clone to arrive. With this hope to support him, he could persevere.

But he still underestimated the situation.

It was already a difficult task to keep his main body from being defeated by sleepiness, and he was having a hard time even paying attention to his clone.

In the second year after the spaceship entered the Chaotic Star River, the clone fell into a deep sleep.

Although he had ditched his pursuers, facing the seemingly endless Dark Tunnel, the clone couldn’t hold on anymore.

Only Lin Zhen’s main body was still persevering, facing the endless extradimensional space and time, struggling to keep his eyes open and resisting wave after wave of sleepiness attacking him.

He had lost all concept of time and had almost nothing to be excited about.

There was only one hope left – that his clone’s Galaxy Beast form was still evolving and growing. It wasn’t far from reaching the peak of the Fire Kirin Infant Stage.